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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Department has not held any contracts with the company concerned in 2023 or to date in 2024. . All contracts awarded by the Department are published quarterly on Gov.ie at www.gov.ie/en/collection/6d4953-procurement-contracts-awarde d/.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Pensions Gender Gap is a feature of occupational and private pensions as a result of lower contribution rates for women due to lower pay and breaks from the workforce as women tend to take more time out of workforce due to family caring responsibilities. Many of the issues giving rise to the pensions gender gap need to be resolved through labour market access and pay-related equality....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned applied for the Benefit Payment for 65 Year Olds (BP65) on 10/10/2023 and was disallowed on the grounds that he was still engaged in self-employment. The person concerned was employed with earned income up to 2021 (9A contributions in 2021). He had 52 S contributions in 2021 (the Governing Contribution Year) which are solely as a result of his Approved Retirement Fund...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Awaiting reply from the Department.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Court (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I acknowledge and value the important advocacy services that the National Advocacy Service (NAS) provides to adults with disabilities across the country, helping to ensure their will and preferences are heard in decisions that affect their lives. As you may be aware, NAS is a Company Limited by Guarantee, and a registered charity, that is funded by the Citizens Information Board (CIB) to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Gender Recognition Act 2015 allows a person to change their preferred gender. The General Register Office facilitates this process by providing a gender recognition certificate to any applicant who meets the criteria set out in the Act.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: One of the key roles of my department is that of income support for people experiencing specific contingencies that limit their ability to earn an income. These contingencies include unemployment, illness/disability and caring responsibilities. These payments reflect the fact that people experiencing these contingencies cannot earn, or can earn only a limited employment income. The payments...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Fuel Allowance (FA) may be payable to certain households in receipt of long term Social Welfare payments who are unable to provide for their heating needs. The allowance is subject to a means test and is paid only to those who live alone or with certain exempted people. Only one Fuel Allowance is payable per household. An application for FA was last received from the person concerned on 14...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Rent Supplement (RS) scheme administered by my Department, provides short-term income support to eligible people living in private rented accommodation whose means are insufficient to meet their accommodation costs and who do not have accommodation available to them from any other source. The responsibility for the provision of rent support to those with a long-term housing need has...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's Benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. To qualify, the carer must satisfy PRSI conditions; employment conditions; show that they are providing full-time care and attention; and must show that the care recipient requires full-time care and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Disability allowance (DA) is a means-tested payment for people with a specified disability who are aged 16 or over and under the age of 66. The applicant must be suffering from an injury, disease, congenital deformity or physical or mental illness or defect which has lasted for one year or is expected to last for one year and, as a result of which, they are substantially restricted in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's Benefit (CARB) is a payment made to insured people who leave the workforce or reduce their working hours to care for a child or an adult in need of full-time care and attention. To qualify, the Carer must satisfy PRSI conditions; employment conditions; show that they are providing full-time care and attention; and must show that the care recipient requires full-time care and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides a wide range of income and employment supports to assist jobseekers and employees with disabilities, and their employers. These supports include the Reasonable Accommodation Fund and the Disability Awareness Support Scheme. The Reasonable Accommodation Fund provides financial support for people with disabilities and for employers to help make their workplaces more...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: An increase for qualified adult (IQA) is a means-tested payment, payable to a claimant on state pension (contributory) whose spouse, civil partner or cohabitant is being wholly or mainly maintained by them, and where that qualified adult’s personal means from any source does not exceed a means test income limit. Where a qualified adult has weekly means of less than €100, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: This Government acknowledges the important role that carers play and is fully committed to supporting them in that role. Accordingly, the current State Pension (Contributory) system provides measures including PRSI credits, Homemaking Disregards and HomeCaring Periods to recognise caring periods of up to 20 years outside of paid employment in the calculation of a payment rate, provided the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: There are a number of payments and pensions paid by my Department to people over State Pension Age. One of these is the State Pension (Contributory), qualification for which is based on a number of criteria, including a minimum of 520 qualifying social insurance contributions having been paid. For those who have paid the required contributions, these will be used in the calculation of their...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. Decisions on appeals, or reviews of appeal decisions, where the grounds of appeal were based on the High Court Judgment in Voican v...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My Department officials held a series of engagements with their counterparts from the Department of Justice on foot of the ruling in the CJEU case referred to in the Deputies question. These discussions specifically relate to S.I. 548 of 2015 – European Communities (Free Movement of Persons) Regulations 2015. The Department of Justice is in the process of reviewing its legislation to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: My department provides the Domiciliary Care Allowance which is a monthly payment to a parent or guardian for a child aged up to 16 who has a severe disability and requires care and attention substantially over and above that required by other children their age. It is not a tax credit. From January 2024, the rate of Domiciliary Care Allowance increased from €330 to €340 per...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The Social Welfare Appeals Office is an Office of the Department of Social Protection which is responsible for determining appeals against decisions in relation to social welfare entitlements. Appeals Officers are independent in their decision making functions. The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was registered on the 8th April 2024. It is...